When I state anti-LGBT, I mean the propaganda of putting gay people in gulags and actively hounding them or something - they were still plenty not accepted in that society and were treated very badly pretty much everywhere in the world back then, but, the USSR wasn’t going around actively rounding up queer people - they had much bigger things to worry about.

Also the “he made homosexuality illegal” is a common misunderstanding. Lenin didn’t “legalize gay marriage”, he abolished the old tsarist law. Later on, the USSR partially re-instituted those laws with occasional amendments, but they did not care about gay people at the time - homosexuality was illegal in the tsarist law, and it still remained that way when it was re-instituted. Nobody in the ruling class paid it much mind.

https://www.stalinsociety.com/news/homosexualityintheussr

LGBT rights are only “Western values” whenever the imperialists can weaponize homonationalism against the villain nation of the day. Most nations had no such misgivings about LGBT people prior to European colonialism, when white devils and barbaric Christian understandings of gender and sexuality spread like a plague through Africa and the East.

In the times of Stalin, LGBT rights were no-one’s values except LGBT people. No east, no west, no north and no south. But this article is pretty good at contextualizing it imo. Labeling Stalin as anti-LGBT makes no sense whenever there is no widely acknowledged “pro-LGBT” to compare him to, and the alternatives are Nazi death camps or western Gay-bashings and bar-burnings.